‘It’s really insulting’: NSW flood victims excluded from extra disaster payments lash out at Coalition

Flooding in Ballina in northern NSW in early March. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian

Residents in flood-ravaged areas of New South Wales excluded from the Morrison government’s additional support package are dismayed to have been ignored when in desperate need of help.

The northern rivers local government areas of Richmond Valley, Lismore and Clarence Valley were offered extra rounds of disaster payments on Wednesday due to “catastrophic” flooding.